Moby Dick; or, the Whale - Couverture souple

Melville, Herman

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0140390847 ISBN 13 : 9780140390841

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 1993

Synopsis

A story of the war between man and mammal, in which the author explores his obsessions with good and evil, love and solitude, speech and silence, using his technical knowledge of sailing and the sea to tell a story which is at once minutely realistic and powerfully symbolic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Herman Melville (1819-91) became in his late twenties a highly successful author of exotic novels based on his experiences as a sailor - writing in quick succession Typee, Omoo, Redburn and White-Jacket. However, his masterpiece Moby-Dick was met with incomprehension and the other later works which are now the basis of his reputation, such as Bartleby, the Scrivener and The Confidence-Man, were failures. Melville stopped writing fiction and the rest of his long life was spent first as a lecturer and then, for nineteen years, as a customs official in New York City. He was also the author of the immensely long poem Clarel, which was similarly dismissed. At the end of his life he wrote Billy Budd, Sailor which was published posthumously in 1924.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0140390847
• ISBN 13: 9780140390841
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Éditeur: Quirk Tom
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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